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- Dictionarybeat/biːt/
verb
- 1. strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip: "if we were caught we were beaten" Similar
- 2. defeat (someone) in a game or other competitive situation: "she beat him easily at chess" Similar
noun
- 1. a main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry: "the glissando begins on the second beat"
- 2. the movement of a bird's wings: "the beat of the swallow's wings as they dive after midges"
adjective
- 1. completely exhausted: informal "I'm beat—I need an hour or so to rest"
- 2. relating to the beat generation or its philosophy: "beat poet Allen Ginsberg"
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14 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...